little drabbly bit for a series i'm starting to work on, called "cyberpop deux". x is the female lead, z is the male lead, and kato and ren are more minor characters. (but i love them, so they get more screen time than they probably should. or something. aha. anyway) oh. and x's is an android. yeah. z, too.

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There are a lot of things X hates about Katô and Ren.

She hates watching Katô’s long, thin fingers splay across Ren’s arm, his shoulder, his neck- every touch more sensuous than she could ever imagine.

She hates that everyone knows that Katô’s hair has gotten longer since Ren came, but that, since he fingers the fringe uncomfortably, he will cut it. Similarly, they know, by watching Ren thread his hand through it, that he will never cut it quite as short as it was before.

Hates the way Katô protects Ren from anything (anyone) he finds threatening. She wonders if Z will always guard her innocence like that, or sigh and turn away. Not to say that Katô doesn’t sigh, but that he never turns away.

Hates thinking of them meeting in the rain, Katô having forgotten an umbrella. Of course, Ren has one, not distinctly his or Katô’s but distinctly large enough for two.

Seeing the way Katô fits into Ren’s arms so perfectly. Not perfectly, they say, but so happily it doesn’t matter.

Hates them leaving now, knowing it will rain and neither has an umbrella. Knows that Ren has a jacket of sorts and halfway home he will offer it to Katô, who will refuse, and the argument will keep going until they arrive, so tangled up in each other’s arms that is has ceased to matter.

But most of all

she hates seeing not Katô and Ren but KatôandRen, like a unit, and knowing that they aren’t. Somehow, those two who share a home a heart a soul a life are still two people- still Katô and Ren who fight and mistrust and refuse to speak for days.

And that there is still and umbrella for two in the apartment, and that Ren will always offer his jacket to Katô, trying to protect him in return…

it is raining now

(she knows they’re caught up in each other)

androids can’t abide the rain